| HI | HB85 | Intro
25% | Restores the amount of conveyance tax revenues to be paid into the Land Conservation Fund to ten per cent of conveyance taxes collected each fiscal year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB86 | Intro
25% | Appropriates moneys to the Department of Land and Natural Resources for the establishment of one full-time equivalent (1.0 FTE) permanent Makai Watch Coordinator position.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB100 | Intro
25% | Authorizes school complexes to incorporate media literacy in their standards-based curriculum, including content that prevents negative impacts of misinformation, disinformation, digital discrimination, and online hate speech.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB87 | Intro
25% | Beginning with the 2025-2026 school year, requires public schools to provide free breakfast and lunch to all enrolled students. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB89 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Teacher Home Assistance Program to provide housing vouchers to certain eligible teachers. Appropriates funds out of the Teachers' Housing Revolving Fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB131 | Intro
25% | Allows agencies to disclose government records to researchers for certain research purposes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB130 | Intro
25% | Imposes a cap on charges for searching for, reviewing, and segregating government records under the Uniform Information Practices Act. Provides for a waiver of fees in certain circumstances when the public interest is served by a government record's ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB125 | Intro
25% | Requires retail sellers of firearms to provide purchasers with notice regarding the law on firearms storage. Expands the requirements for the secure storage of firearms. Clarifies the offense of criminally negligent storage of a firearm.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB126 | Intro
25% | Increases transparency and accountability surrounding property forfeiture. Clarifies which property is subject to forfeiture. Amends the authorized disposition of forfeited property and the proceeds thereof. Repeals language that requires the Hawaii ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB127 | Intro
25% | Requires the court to enter on the record its written findings regarding the necessity of the conditions imposed on a defendant's release. Requires bail to be set in an amount that the defendant can afford based on certain factors.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB141 | Intro
25% | Makes the members of the Elections Commission subject to the advice and consent of the Senate.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB148 | Intro
25% | Protects individuals who make claims of sexual misconduct from defamation lawsuits unless the claims were proven to be made with malice.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB146 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to support the Olelo Hawaii Initiatives.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB132 | Intro
25% | Makes an amendment to the Department of the Attorney General pilot project for a state-initiated expungement process of arrest records concerning promoting a detrimental drug in the third degree to include the possession of any schedule V substance i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB151 | Intro
25% | Requires the State to provide written notice to certain persons regarding the ability to file a claim for redress under applicable wrongful conviction law. Requires the liberal construction of that law. Provides for advance compensation for petitione...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB149 | Intro
25% | Requires domestic and foreign corporations to provide their shareholders with reports of independent expenditures and political contributions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB145 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the Hawaii Criminal Justice Data Center to transmit all expungement orders to the Judiciary to effectuate the purposes of Act 159, SLH 2023.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB192 | Intro
25% | Prohibits foreign entities from owning, leasing, or holding a controlling interest in more than an unspecified number of acres of agricultural land. Limits the lease term for agricultural land by foreign entities. Requires foreign entities that own o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB197 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Hawaii Space Commission within the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to promote innovation in the fields of space exploration and commercial aerospace. Appropriates moneys.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB191 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Education to establish rules for the procurement of goods and services related to the administration of food programs at public schools that incorporate a geographic preference for unprocessed locally grown and locally rais...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB182 | Intro
25% | Permanently increases the state earned income tax credit to fifty per cent of the federal earned income tax credit. Applies to taxable years beginning after 12/31/2024.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB179 | Intro
25% | Makes permanent the amendments made by Act 163, SLH 2023, to the state earned income tax credit and refundable food/excise tax credit. Amends the income thresholds and credit amounts for the low-income household renters tax credit and refundable food...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB183 | Intro
25% | Authorizes each qualifying individual taxpayer to claim an additional credit if the taxpayer claims any dependent under the age of eighteen.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB180 | Intro
25% | Exempts the tax collected on the sale of groceries that are eligible under the supplemental nutrition assistance program or special supplemental nutrition program for women, infants, and children, regardless of the means of purchase and the program e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB184 | Intro
25% | Requires operators of low-speed electronic bicycles to possess a valid driver's license, instruction permit, or provisional license.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB211 | Intro
25% | Clarifies that personal property stored in or near a public stream or tributary for a continuous period of more than twenty-four hours shall become abandoned property which the Department of Land and Natural Resources shall dispose of.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB209 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Hawaii State Fellows Program within the Department of Human Resources Development to match talented applicants with full-time, paid fellowship roles in various state agencies for a period of ten to eleven months. Establishes minimum q...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB355 | N/A
0% | Establishes a nonrefundable individual income tax credit for expenses paid to retrofit a residence with wind resistive devices.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB353 | N/A
0% | Appropriates funds for the Office of the Governor, in collaboration with the Insurance Division of the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs, to oversee and administer grants to low-income residents, and condominium associations on behalf of lo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB278 | N/A
0% | Requires county police departments and police oversight agencies to collect and report certain data regarding police stops, arrests, uses of force, and complaints to the Crime Prevention and Justice Assistance Division of the Department of the Attorn...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB280 | N/A
0% | Permanently establishes and appropriates funds for the Community Outreach Court as a division of the District Court of the First Circuit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB279 | N/A
0% | Allows the carrying or possessing of firearm parts only at or between certain locations and in an enclosed container. Defines firearm parts and prohibited persons. Establishes and increases penalties for the carrying or possessing of certain firearms...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB322 | N/A
0% | Requires the Department of Human Services to automatically transmit voter registration information for any Med-Quest applicant. Authorizes state agencies to implement automatic voter registration if designated by the Office of Elections. Requires eli...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB332 | N/A
0% | Expands the Electronic Device Recycling and Recovery Act to include the collection and recycling of certain lithium-ion batteries. Requires manufacturers of lithium-ion batteries to recycle or arrange for the recycling of lithium-ion batteries sold i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB354 | N/A
0% | Appropriates funds for the Office of the Governor, in collaboration with the Insurance Division of the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs, to: (1) plan and administer income tax credits relating to emergency management or disaster preparedne...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB326 | N/A
0% | Increases a taxpayer's applicable percentage of employment-related expenses that may be claimed for the household and dependent care services tax credit for five years. Repeals 6/30/2030.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB248 | N/A
0% | Establishes fees that medical providers may charge for requests for a patient's medical records from the patient's family member, caregiver, or representative. Requires medical providers to respond to requests in a timely manner. Establishes penaltie...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB299 | N/A
0% | Appropriates funds for the Native Resources and Fire Protection Program and Hawaii Invasive Species Council to ensure their long-term viability and continue to control and eradicate invasive species in the State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB356 | N/A
0% | Requires all newly constructed single-family residences and apartment buildings located within specified geographic areas to be built to withstand certain categories of hurricanes and to contain residential safe rooms with attached bathrooms. Effecti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB308 | N/A
0% | Increases the matching fund payments to candidates in the partial public financing program for excess qualifying contributions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB357 | N/A
0% | Appropriates funds for the Office of the Governor, in collaboration with the Insurance Division of the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs and Hawaii Emergency Management Agency, to strengthen existing hurricane shelters and develop new hurri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB359 | N/A
0% | Amends covered offender registration laws to include offenders who, while acting in a professional capacity, commit the offense of sexual assault in the fourth degree against a minor who is at least sixteen years old. Provides that the exception to p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB421 | N/A
0% | Repeals the leasing restriction on owner-builders who obtain an owner-builder exemption to act as their own contractor and who build or improve residential or farm buildings or structures on property they own or lease and do not offer the buildings o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB358 | N/A
0% | Requires all public buildings, including public school buildings, constructed after January 1, 2026, to be designed to withstand category five hurricanes and be used as shelters in the event of an emergency.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB365 | N/A
0% | Prohibits certain octopus aquaculture.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Pending introduction. |
